54 individuals reported missing in Georgia between Jan-June 2020
11 days have passed since rescuers began searching for a missing 13-year-old boy in the western Svaneti region of Georgia. Photo: IPN.
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A total of 54 individuals were reported missing between January-June of 2020 in Georgia, out of which 34 were found by police, while search operations for 20 individuals are still underway.
Out of the 54 people, 13 were under-aged individuals. 10 of the 13 minors have been found alive, while search operations for the remaining three children are still underway.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that among the missing 54 people, five were between the ages of 18-24, out of which two were found alive, two were found dead, while the remaining one is considered missing.
Majority of the missing individuals (51%) are Georgian citizens.
11 days have passed since rescuers began searching for a missing 13-year-old boy in the western Svaneti region of Georgia.
Ilia Pilpani left home on his bicycle at 11 a.m. on July 18 in the village of Lenjeri near the municipality in Mestia.
The only witness who saw the boy leaving home on his bicycle is his neighbor.
Ilia Pilpani has a ‘Slavic appearance’, light skin and hair color.
An investigation has been launched into kidnapping.
The body of a 23-year-old tourist from the Netherlands who had been missing for 17 days in Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi has been found near the Rioni River on March 28.
Georgian rescuers are searching for a missing tourist from the Netherlands in the Rioni River, near the country’s western city of Kutaisi.
Rescuers from Georgia's emergency services are looking for traces of Ilia Pilpani, a teenager missing since last week, in the highland Svaneti province in the north and on the Black Sea coastline in the west of the country.
Twenty-three year old Tamar Bachaliashvili from Ponichala district of Tbilisi, who went missing on July 18, has been found dead in her own car in a forest of Tetritskaro municipality of eastern Georgia earlier today.
The mother of recently deceased 23-year-old IT specialist Tamar Bachaliashvili, Teona Tamazashvili, has demanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) be included in the investigation of her daughters’ case, and threatens to otherwise begin a hunger strike.
The body of a 19-year-old girl who had been reported missing three days ago in Georgia’s western city of Poti has been found dead in the Rioni River today.
Police are searching for two employees of Bauhaus Bar in downtown Tbilisi who went missing during their shift a day ago. Bauhaus Bar shared photos of Giorgi Shalamberidze and Baia Beruashvili on its official Facebook page last night.
The body of a Bauhaus Bar employee who went missing on August 15 has been found by rescuers in the Mtkvari River in Tbilisi today.
The body of a second person has been found by rescuers in the Mtkvari River in Tbilisi today.
Interpol has issued a yellow search notice for 13-year-old Ilia Pilpani from the Svaneti region of western Georgia who went missing on July 18.
Bodies of a man and woman were discovered on Kobaladze Street in Black Sea city of Batumi earlier today. Formula TV reports that both individuals were Ukrainian citizens.
Police and rescuers are still searching for 24-year-old Georgian Dito Khelkhelauri who went missing in the Polish capital of Warsaw on June 11. An investigation is underway into a possible suicide, as the police found Khelkhelauri's backpack near the lake in Warsaw and witnesses say he jumped into the water.
Italian police are searching for Sali Tetunashvili, a 27-year-old Georgian woman who went missing five days ago in Naples, Italy